Earth Sciences: Geology, Meteorology, Oceanography, and Paleontology

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Reference Resources: Geology, Meteorology, Oceanography, and Paleontology

   Electronic Databases

Earth Sciences

Access Science  
Access to 7100+ articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology.

Agricola  
(1970-current). Materials relating to all aspects of agriculture.

Anthropological Index Online  
(1970-current). Citations to publications in the field of anthropology with search engine.

Applied Science and Technology Index  
Provides information on management, careers and employment, and financial trends in the scientific and technological fields.

BioAGINDEX  
(1983-current). English-language periodicals in life sciences and agricultural subjects, published in the U.S. and elsewhere. Includes book reviews.

CiteSeer - Scientific Literature Digital Library for accessing scientific literature citations.  Free via the Internet.

Dissertation Abstracts  
(Indexing: 1861+, Abstracting Dissertations: 1980+, Abstracting Theses: 1988+). The complete range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions.

GeoBase  
(1980-current). Worldwide literature on geography and geology.

Maps  
NewsBank Reference Maps, includes geographic, political and topographic maps.

Papers First  
An index of papers presented at conferences.

Science Direct  
ScienceDirect is the unsurpassed single source for scientific, technical and medical information on the Internet. Researchers can access a critical mass of the world's STM journal titles and full-text articles

Scifinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts Online)
SciFinder Scholar is today's leader in providing the most accurate and comprehensive chemical and related scientific information. NOTE! On campus use only

Web of Science  
Covers over 8,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities.

World Cat  
Union catalog of materials held in libraries world-wide. Coverage: Updated regularly.

General

Academic Search Elite  
(Indexing: 1984+, full-text: 1990+). Indexing and abstracts of scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education and more.

Books in Print  
(Current). Contains current, detailed information on more than 1.9 million titles: author, titles, ISBN, price, publisher, binding, language, illustrations, contact information for publishers, wholesalers, distributors, and much more.

Britannica Online  
The complete encyclopedia, with related Internet sites and more. Encyclopedia Britannica.

Ebsco Electronic Journal Service (EJS)  
Provides access to full-text of many of FSU's online journal subscriptions and also EJS Journals via pay per view. Includes searching in article titles, journal titles, abstracts, full-text and title list browsing.

Ebscohost  
 

ECO  
(Electronic Collection Online). An OCLC collection of scholarly journals.

NCLIVE  
A core group of reference and research materials online in the form of full-text electronic information and indexes.

NetLibrary  
Access to the full text of more than 13,000 reference, scholarly, and professional books.

Periodical Abstracts  
(1987-current). Abstracts from general and academic journals, covering business, current affairs, economics, literature, religion, psychology, women's studies, and others.

Reader’s Guide  
(Indexing: 1983+, Abstracting: 1984+). Abstracts of articles from popular magazines.

Wilson Select Plus  
(1994-current). Contains indexed and abstracted articles from periodicals, all with ASCII full text online.

  Selected Journal Titles in Chesnutt Library:
Go To Earth Sciences, Meteorology, Oceanography, and Paleontology

Library of Congress Subject Heading = Earth Sciences Periodicals or Geology Periodicals

Library of Congress Subject Heading = Meteorology Periodicals or Atmosphere Periodicals or Climatology Periodicals

Library of Congress Subject Heading = Oceanography Periodicals or Marine Biology Periodicals or Marine Pollution Periodicals 

Library of Congress Subject Heading = Paleontology Periodicals or Paleoecology Periodicals 

   Selected Web Sites on Earth Sciences

• American Geophysical Union
  http://www.agu.org/

• American Association for the Advancement of Science
  http://www.aaas.org/

• American Association of Petroleum Geologists
  http://www.aapg.org/

• American Geological Institute
  http://www.agiweb.org/

• American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  http://www.agu.org/

• American Institute of Hydrology
  http://www.aihydro.org/

• American Institute of Professional Geologists
  http://www.aipg.org/ScriptContent/Index.cfm

• American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO)
  http://aslo.org/

• Geographic.Org
  http://www.geographic.org/

• Geological Society of America
  http://www.geosociety.org/

• Geology.Com
  http://geology.com/ 

• International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry
   of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI)
  http://www.iavcei.org/

• National Association for Research in Science Teaching
  http://www2.educ.sfu.ca/narstsite/

• North Carolina Department of Environmental and Natural Resources
  http://www.enr.state.nc.us/

• Oceanography Society
  http://www.tos.org/

• Paleontological Research Institution
  http://www.priweb.org/

• Paleontological Society
  http://paleosoc.org/

• Scientific Style and Format: The CBE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers
  http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite8.html

• Seismological Society of America
  http://www.seismosoc.org/ssa/

• United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
  http://www.blm.gov/nhp/index.htm

• United States Geological Survey (USGS)
  http://www.usgs.gov/